NFT: Knicks Chat! RoLo and Williams are Knick

No more money left, right?

We're tougher and more athletic than we were 3 days ago. Screw anyone who's pissed that we didn't get the shiny

At 4 mil per? May be my favorite acquisition of this FA period. Phil doing work. We still have that 2.8 mil to use right?

Seriously, cash and a swap of #2s? Wow.

In comment 12356244 Canton said:

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No more money left, right?

2.8 million exception

We could make some noise. This should be a fun season with no expectations.

And whoever else was bullish on O'Quinn deserves some credit for this. Guarantee you Phil was scouring through New York area sports forums for some ideas.

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I really think that in 3 years people are just going to be scratching their heads about how we got him for $4 million. I think he's going to be hugely productive.

Better days are ahead.

The question do Knicks use the exception for a back up 5 or try to find another shooter...

Calderon/grant
Afflalo/Galloway/ledo
Melo/early/thanasis
O'Quinn/williams
Lopez/porzingis

The Knicks don't start O'Quinn or sit RoLo or O'Quinn separately so one of them is always on the floor. Hopefully bring back Aldrich to get some more depth and a few minutes a game.

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or are they unusable because we're back up to the cap?

zinger, Williams and Melo there are plenty of minutes to be had at the 4. We need one more wing and then call it a day. Afflalo is going to need to put up big scoring numbers.

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Same here. Phil said he didn't want to change the WHOLE team. Shved and Aldrich know the system and are useful parts.

than Monroe at 16 M. For a team whose biggest achilles heel was defense, we just got two great defenders as opposed to a guy who was just offense.



I also am pumped about Derrick Williams. It's hard not to get excited when you read that scouting report...and the guy is still 24. He could still realize his potential.


Bring on the Summer League!

About free agency & the draft. Finally it seems this team is being built the right way. Hopefully somehow Phil can lure an All-Star or a guy with All-Star potential in next year. If Grant & Porzingis do enough to justify their draft position & we get one more star player I think we can make a nice playoff run in 2016. Melo & one more star, plus the two young draft picks & a decent amount of depth. I could see us finishing in the top 4 in the East.

Look out.

I really them to resign shved. I really like his game a lot. He is very crafty, reminds me of a poor mans Manu ginolbli. Obvious needs to add some muscle, but showed a lot of skill and high Bball IQ.

In comment 12356272 Big Rick in FL said:

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About free agency & the draft. Finally it seems this team is being built the right way. Hopefully somehow Phil can lure an All-Star or a guy with All-Star potential in next year. If Grant & Porzingis do enough to justify their draft position & we get one more star player I think we can make a nice playoff run in 2016. Melo & one more star, plus the two young draft picks & a decent amount of depth. I could see us finishing in the top 4 in the East.

Only thing missing is our first rounder (and our second rounder). Can't believe we gave it up for Andrea Bargnani. The NBA should force the Raptors to return the pick for sheer stupidity alone. God, if we lose a lottery pick for Bargnani, I will legit. throw up.

In comment 12356253 giantsfan44ab said:

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And whoever else was bullish on O'Quinn deserves some credit for this. Guarantee you Phil was scouring through New York area sports forums for some ideas.

Sarcasm, right?

Yeah that really does suck. I don't think it's going to be that high this year anyway. I think we finish somewhere between the 6-8 seed. So we could probably buy a pick around that area or give up a Hardaway Jr type player for a top 20 pick hahahaha what a trade.

The onlybreal aging vet role player is calderon..


The vets they have signed are young

I'd like to finish up with another big man and a shooter. Thinking withey and Alan Anderson.

For bringing Shved and Aldrich back. We may be a work in progress but it sure is going to be a fun team to watch develop

O'Quinn/williams
Lopez/porzingis

You can't list Porz to get mins at the 5 yet. It isn't going to happen for a while. As in years.

We have a team built intelligently for a change. Keep making smart moves and this can possibly get turned around a little faster than anticipated. It's still going to take a couple seasons and KP has to deliver down the line or we'll be a pretender rather than a contender.

For the first time in ages I am looking toward the future with optimism. I never believed in Woodson or the makeup of those rosters.

I am expecting either Aldrich or Smith back. I highly doubt they want to use Porzingis at the 5 so we need some kind of depth behind Lopez. I think O'Quinn is 6-10 so maybe they think they can get away with using him there? Definitely seems we need one more big.

But he is foul prone, which is why we still need one more big.

of thing we should be doing. Phil's given out reasonable to good contracts to almost every one this offseason, and the one gamble is Williamd, who I'm still cautiously hopeful about. He needs to figure out that he's not going to be a go to scorer so he'll have to improve his three ball and become more efficient given less than heavy usage.

Not bad, not bad. Enough to strike out on Durant with

In comment 12356278 AnotherGiantsFan said:

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In comment 12356253 giantsfan44ab said: Quote: And whoever else was bullish on O'Quinn deserves some credit for this. Guarantee you Phil was scouring through New York area sports forums for some ideas. Sarcasm, right?

Yes sir

that's a fairly rugged, blue collar front court depth chart

Listened to me! KOQ!

Phil Jackson loves KOQ

Love when Bbi Knicks thread gets happy. We got some lunchpail junkyard dog players --- very nice.

I thought cap space available was more like 25? Even if 17 we have to assume afflalo and Derrick Williams are 99 percent opting out with higher cap so that would leave us 30 million under the cap

Opting out we should have close to 30. Plus we can stretch Calderon and at that point we would save like 5 mill. Of course with the opt outs you only have Melo, Lopez, Grant, KP, early, Oquinn. Cap hold on Galloway would be really small and you may have thanisis only taking up like a mill. Plus the guy we took in the second should be coming over. We are in pretty good shape right now for once.

We had a way to pick up Koufos also who is still out there. Lopez, O'Quinn and Koufos would be one tough group.

I think he just agreed on a 4 year deal with The Kings. 4 years 33 mil?

Just signed with the Kings. 4/33 I think.

Labeyrie. He supposedly has some ability. Hope he plays summer league.

I think he's still available.

In comment 12356371 Torrag said:

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I think he's still available.

agree Withy would make sense but do we have the cap space? What is he expected to get?

In comment 12356367 Carl in CT said:

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Labeyrie. He supposedly has some ability. Hope he plays summer league.

Labeyrie doesn't seem to be a 5, though. From the Post recently:

"During their stop in Utah on the Knicks’ recent trip, young 7-foot-2 Frenchman shotblocking center Rudy Gobert, who is emerging as a stud, spoke glowingly and excitedly about Labeyrie in a quick interview with The Post.

Gobert shares the same agent as Labeyrie, and the two played together on the French 20-and-under national team.

“He wants to play in the NBA and I know he can, I don’t know if it can be next season, but maybe, yeah,’’ Gobert said. “I haven’t talked to him about it yet. He’s more of a power forward than center, though. He’s not a center.

“He’s athletic and can drive and can shoot. I think he’d like to be in New York. I was happy for him.’’

I doubt he's ready, but who knows?

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Gotta question how good this guy is

5.3 points 3.6 boards 26% from 3 (supposedly the basis for much of his offense) 0.63 blocks in 16 minutes per

Why was he only getting 16 minutes per game as a 23 year old on some French team?